Vitaly Mykolenko: "There will be no big problem with replacing Zinchenko, Bushchan or Shaparenko"

Yesterday evening, on the eve of the 2022/2023 Nations League match with Scotland, the national team of Ukraine held a training session at the Hampden Park stadium. The defender of the English "Everton" Vitaliy Mykolenko commented on the preparation for today's match.

"Probably, I won't be able to help the guys, because I'm not participating in training and I'm not preparing for the match. I felt discomfort during the last match of the English championship, and today the doctors did an examination and said that everything is more or less fine, but we have to wait a little. If the coaches take me, I will prepare for the next meetings.

Now we have a lot of injured people, Zabarny is disqualified, and Viktor Kovalenko was also injured yesterday. But the coaching staff has 24 players, so there are two or three good performers for each position. Therefore, I believe, there will be no big problem with a replacement for Zinchenko, Bushchan or Shaparenko. We are all one family, one team, so we have to deal with difficulties.

In the almost four months that have passed since our match in June, I don't think the Scotland team has changed much. Unless football players have more game practice. I know there will be no Andrew Robertson, but to be honest, I don't follow all the opposing players. However, I will note that my partner at Everton, Nathan Patterson, is in very good form. Before leaving for the national team, when I was injured, he was the one who gave me the pass. Patterson said it was a tactic before our game. We joked around a bit - we're both in a good mood.

It will be a difficult match, but there is also Armenia, which will also be difficult away from home. After the flight and on the third day after the match against Scotland. But I will repeat one more time - we have 24 players, and all of them will be 100 percent ready," said Vitaly Mykolenko.

We will remind that the Nations League match between the national teams of Scotland and Ukraine will take place today in Glasgow at the Hampden Park stadium (start at 9:45 p.m.).